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Settlements in Ireland
Hello, I would like to point out that the map concerning Scandinavian settlement in Ireland is slightly inaccurate. The westernmost area of settlement should not be in what is now northeastern Kerry. Instead, it should encompass what is now the city of Limerick, which was founded by Vikings.

Toastedspikes (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Conquest of Bari and Apulia
Hi! I just want to notice that in your map about the Viking expansion do not comprise all the southern part of Italy and in particular the city of Bari and all the territory of Apulia (Puglia) that was the first and most important part conquered by the Normans and also a place that they colonized very much. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.128.105.235 (talk) 08:13, 9 February 2011‎
 * ✅ - M0rphzone (talk) 10:44, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Spanish Kingdoms
I'd like to suggest changing the nomenclature to "Iberian Kingdoms", as Spain was a random unification of Iberian Kingdoms (casually not including Portugal) and there wasn't anything like a "Spanish Identity" at the time (impossible, of course, unless they traveled to the future). There's hardly a "Spanish Identity" nowadays, to be honest (being Spain a union of nations with strong cultural and linguistic individuality). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.80.188.180 (talk) 23:17, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - M0rphzone (talk) 10:44, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Ruthenia
There are number of issues with the map: Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 11:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) The author is not familiar with the history of Kievan Rus and Ruthenia. His map is total of key in regards of location of those states (Rus states).
 * 2) Also the Western culture knows Rus as Ruthenia, not as Rus which is a recent Russophone adaptation.
 * 3) The author does not know the location of Kiev and its importance in the Eastern Slavs history.
 * 4) The author differentiates between east slavs and Rus states when there is no such a differentiation exists.

Gascony
It seems that vikings established a local power in Gascony: A colony in Gascony--Diddou (talk) 17:22, 27 June 2013 (UTC) [User talk:Diddou]

Colour-blind accessibility
The yellow and green colours are indistinguishable to people with at least some degree of red-green colourblindness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.246.4.212 (talk) 03:31, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Areas in Estonia
Why are the areas in Estonia included? There is no evidence for the existence of such communities. H2ppyme (talk) 17:10, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I am aware of no literature on Scandinavian settlement in Estonia before some Christian Swedes were settled on the west coast in the 1290s. Please clarify by adding citations/sources or make the necessary corrections on the map. Also, Chudes lived on the east side of Lake Peipus, not in Estonia; please correct. Courtesy ping to --Vihelik (talk) 17:34, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree that the map is wrong, as other editors have previously stated. There is archeological evidence for Norse population in Nuckö & Enby, which is northwestern mainland Estonia. There are also some sources that talk about an exodus of Norse population from Gotland to Dagö, from where that population moved forward to the Rus' lands. But I have not seen any sources for Ösel. Blomsterhagens (talk) 13:10, 28 September 2018 (UTC)


 * See Talk:Norsemen/Archive 1. Discussions should be kept on one page, not spread over many different pages to confuse people. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 20:44, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Discussions about editing this specific map should be here. Discussions about other Norsemen topics should be on the Norsemen page. Blomsterhagens (talk) 10:05, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No, discussions about editing this image should be at Wikimedia Commons, since that's where the image is, not here. Since the image is used on many pages and on several different language versions of Wikipedia, you can not push your OR through here, against the opinion of other editors, and then change the image without the support of editors on Wikimedia Commons. There is no support in sources for your POV claims about there not having been Scandinavians on Saaremaa and the other Estonian islands, just like there's no support in sources for your POV claims about the Oeselians of the Viking Age having been ethnic Finno-Ugrian Estonians. If you don't understand what the sources say, and don't understand the difference in meaning between "Vikings from Estonia" and "Estonian Vikings", in spite of having had it explained to you multiple times, you shouldn't edit the English language Wikipedia. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 10:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thomas, against which other editors? You are the only one here who seems to fail to understand that if a map claims there is Norse inhabitat somewhere, sources are needed for that claim. I do not need to prove there were no Norse people on Ösel. You need to prove there were Norse people on Ösel. Otherwise Ösel will remain in an "unknown" status. How is this so hard to understand? Blomsterhagens (talk) 12:40, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I think more to the point is that sources such as this suggest that Norse Vikings raided the island. There is also this dig which suggests Norse Vikings came over in ships and were killed. It is speculated who their adversaries were, the archaeologists suggest they could be rival warlord hiding out or maybe an indigenous population that is otherwise unknown. There is another source here. Nothing is confirmed or known about who the inhabitants of these Islands were at all. They could have possibly been other Norsemen, or maybe Viking style warriors from Estland, who may or may not have been Finno-Ugrian Estonians. This is obviously a relevant issue in context to the overall subject area and I suggested an RfC, but in context to this map, all that is relevant is whether there were any Norse settlements on those islands. Whoever first made the map may have confused the range of Norse expeditions with the range of Norse settlements. There is no doubt that Norsemen sailed over to this island and fought battles, no evidence that they settled there. I note that another editor noted that there an area of England on this map where this same mistake was made. This should be fixed without excessive debate over related issues. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 14:13, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Inaccurate map...
The orange area for Normandy is way too large (Normandy never extended to French flanders) and the yellow section makes no sense whatsover as 11th century Normans weren't vikings in any way (they spoke French, were christians and fought and lived like the French). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.241.175.56 (talk) 02:46, 30 December 2018 (UTC)